Colombian presidential elections

2022-5-23Candidates in Colombia have rounded up their campaigns over the weekend ahead of the May 29 Presidential elections in which leftwing hopeful Gustavo Petro is expected to win according to most polls. With more than 99 percent of votes counted preliminary results showed 62-year-old Gustavo Petro a former Bogota mayor taking 403 percent.

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While COVID-19 has exacerbated poverty in Colombia violence has overtaken its territories with more than 50 social leaders killed in.

. If leftist candidate Gustavo Petro wins he will be the first left-wing president. The former mayor of Bogota gathered 403 per cent of the votes in Sundays poll and will go head to head in a second round with Rodolfo Hernandez who finished in. With more than 98 per cent of votes counted preliminary results showed 62.

2022-5-30LEFTIST candidate Gustavo Petro has won the first round of the Colombian elections. Petro and Hernandez will face off in a second round of elections on June 19. Colombia is on the precipice of historic presidential elections amid a backdrop of significant social unrest deepening polarization and the escalation of the countrys six-decade old armed conflict.

On Thursday the Ombudsman Carlos Camargo warned that 290 Colombian municipalities are on high risk and extreme risk alert due to armed actions attributed to the Gulf Clan and other. 2022-5-30BOGOTA May 30 Colombians clamouring for change gave a leftist ex-guerrilla a historic lead yesterday in a first round of presidential elections that will culminate in a runoff against a populist outsider in June. Its a relatively simple election.

Thursday May 19 2022. He will face Rodolfo Hernandez in a second. To leave things as they are in Colombia which in my opinion means more corruption violence and hunger or to change Colombia and take it towards peace prosperity and democracy for the people said Gustavo Petro after casting his vote in BogotaThe current senator leftist former mayor of Bogota and member of the M-19.

Candidates for the Colombian Presidency Attended a Debate. 2022-5-30BOGOTA May 29 Xinhua -- Gustavo Petro presidential candidate from the Historic Pact for Colombia coalition has won the first round of the Colombian presidential elections the latest figures from the countrys National Registry showed on Sunday. Of the 166 members of the House of Representatives 162 are elected.

2022-5-29Colombians clamoring for change gave a leftist ex-guerrilla an historic lead Sunday in a first round of presidential elections that will culminate in a runoff against a maverick outsider in June. 2022-5-25The Colombian presidential elections of 2022 will take place in an environment of deep political polarisation and social unrest. References This page was last edited on 28 May 2022 at 1627 UTC.

2 days agoVice-Presidential Candidates Lay Out Visions for Colombias Future. On Sunday Petro came out on top in the countrys first round of presidential elections. Héctor Fabio Henao Gaviria delegate for Church-State relations of the Colombian Bishops Conference released a video message in which he said Sundays vote is an opportunity to build a shared national project He called on Colombians to think about the issues including the right to life human dignity and social mobility.

2 days agoColombias presidential election is down to the wire with polls showing both candidates in a near statistical tie. Consequently a second round will be held between presidential candidate Gustavo Petro and his running mate Francia Márquez who won 4032 percent of the votes and the. 2022-6-9On May 29 the results of the first round of the presidential elections showed that no candidate passed the bar of 50 percent plus one vote needed to win outright.

And Colombian stock markets were closed on Monday. 2022-5-26On Wednesday the Civil Registry director Alexander Vega Rocha announced that at least 27 international organizations will monitor the elections on May 29 when Colombians will choose their president and vice president for the period 2022-2026. 2022-6-18Parliamentary elections were held in Colombia on 13 March 2022.

He will face a run-off against a millionaire businessman who has previously praised Adolf Hitler. Text is available under the Creative. 2022-5-20Paramilitary groups intimidate the rural population so that they do not vote for the Leftist presidential candidate Gustavo Petro in the May 29 elections.

2022 Colombian presidential election. 2022-5-23A supporter of Historical Pact coalition presidential candidate Gustavo Petro holds a flag with the image of Petro before a closing campaign rally.

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